• Chinese Journal of Lasers
  • Vol. 7, Issue 8, 7 (1980)
Fan Qikang, Mao Weimin, and Liu Yueying
Author Affiliations
  • [in Chinese]
  • show less
    DOI: Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Fan Qikang, Mao Weimin, Liu Yueying. High efficiency laser frequency doubling[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 1980, 7(8): 7 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The laser system in our experiments consists of a Nd:YAG oscillator and three Nd:glass amplifiers with diffraction-limited output beams. Crystals for frequency doubling are KDP and KD*P. When unfocused collimated laser beams were used in frequency doubling, a maximum energy, conversion efficiency of 65% has been obtained,the corresponding peak power conversion efficiency was about 84%. In the case of low laser power, by means of cylindrical focusing laser beams, energy conversion efficiencies were increased by a factor of 8 to 30 with a maximum conversion efficiency of 64%.